they--he was a messenger of this vision that he had of the united states. so we know today that no one makes up their own speeches, but in stevenson's time he stood very firmly on the notion that those were his speeches, and that's why he edited them all the time, so that there would be a little bit of a rumpus. i have to tell one story about the '52 campaign and the plane arrives in grand rapids, michigan, and there's a big crowd on the ground and stevenson's working on the speech, he's not ready. he's editing, he's editing, he's editing and the newspaper report from the baltimore sun looks over and sees that the crowd just dwindles away. and by the time that stevenson gets out and has a beautiful speech to deliver, everyone's left. c-span: if we followed you around in the last eight years... >> guest: oh, god. oh, my--god forbid. c-span: ... where would we have seen you go to get this book? >> guest: oh, well, a lot of places. we don't make things easy for american historians. if we just--we're really close here to the library of congress, but, you know,